WPA Administrator appears before Senate Relief Committee. Washington, D.C. (1938)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Corrington Gill, Asst. WPA Administrator told the Senate Committee on relief today that large numbers of rural families are facing serious deprivation, Gill declared that at least 3,500,000 families. At more than one out of every four rural families has received public assistance at some time during the Depression.